Best History Museums Spot List

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

Feel the history of Kitakami at the outdoor museum

Built on the Naniwanomiya Site, the museum allows visitors to learn about the history of Osaka from ancient times to the present.

Discover Tohoku history and culture

A museum where visitors can see the various works and crafts created by the people of the old capital of Nara.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

Introducing life in Osaka during the Edo period, the museum makes it fun to learn about the history and culture of housing and living.

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

Reproduces the streets of Fukagawa Saga-cho in the Edo Period so visitors can see the scene and lifestyle of that period.

This is one of the three greatest commemorative ships in the world. It has been preserved as a symbol of the nation’s pride that attained the victory in the naval battle for defending national independence.